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Suggested Scripture for Speakers 


I Chron. 22:16. 


“Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be 
with thee.” 


II Samuel 10:12. 
“Be of good courage, and let us play the men for 
our people and for the cities of our God.” 
Ps. 62:11. 
“God hath spoken once, twice, have I heard this 
that power belongeth unto God.” 
Neh. 4:6. 


“So we built the wall; and all the wall was joined 
together unto the half thereof, for the people 
had a mind to work.” 


Neh. 3:5. 


“And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but 
their nobles put not their necks to the work of 
their Lord.” 


Neh. 2:18. 


“And they said, let us rise up and build. So they 
strengthened their hands for this good work.” 


CHAPTER I 
EDUCATION IS OUR HISTORIC POLICY 


Education is the historic policy of North Carolina 
Baptists. The State Convention was conceived and 
formed in 1830 primarily because the fathers realized 
it was imperative to train future leadership for the 
Baptist churches. 

The first reason for the convention, given in the 
constitution, was ‘“‘to train young men called of God 
to the ministry.” 


Wake Forest Our First Cooperative Undertaking. 


The first cooperative undertaking of the new con- 
vention was to establish Wake Forest College—in 
1834. Ever since the day Wake Forest opened, it 
has been the center of the organized work of the 
Baptist churches of North Carolina. 


Meredith’s Conception. 


In 1835 Rev. Thomas Meredith moved that, since 
the college for young men was established, the con- 
vention proceed to found a college for young women 
at Raleigh. His motion did not carry until sixty-odd 
years later. 


Other Schools Founded. 


The most important thing before most of the 
annual sessions of the State Convention was the 
matter of education. In 1852 the State Convention 
passed a resolution encouraging each Association to 
establish a preparatory school which should send 
students to Wake Forest. Several were established 
and served their day and generation with telling 
results for the Kingdom. 

Other colleges were founded in the following 
order: Chowan, 1848; Mars Hill, 1859; Campbell, 
1887; Wingate, 1895; Meredith, 1899; Boiling 
Springs, 1905. 

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The Greatest Session of the Convention. 


The “greatest session of the convention ever held, 
before or since’”’ was that in 1856, which was a great 
educational mass meeting. $100,000 was raised that 
year for Wake Forest endowment—an unprecedented 
achievement for that period. “Men wept and laughed 
and prayed and sang, and all felt as Peter did on the 
Mount, that ‘it was good to be there’.” 

Education, education, more education, better edu- 
cation, education that shall be Christian through and 
through, has been the one consuming passion of 
North Carolina Baptists. 

Each generation of Baptists has rededicated them- 
selves to the educational policy. 

They have kept the faith with oncoming Baptist 
boys and girls, providing institutions of education 
under Christian agencies to train and nourish future 
leaders for the Baptist churches. 


Results of Our Educational Policy. 


What has been the result of this educational fore- 
sight? The Baptists have grown from 20,000 in 
1830 to 375,000 in 1927. ‘The people called Bap- 
tists” have developed under God’s blessing from a 
small, ridiculed sect to the greatest body of Christian 
followers in the State. 

There can be no human explanation of this re- 
markable growth. It is due primarily, of course, to 
God’s blessing and guidance, but the outstanding 
human factor in this steady progress has been our 
policy of education. During this same period of 
time, we have seen other denominations in our State, 
just as zealous and devoted to Christ’s Kingdom, 
shrink and decay and lose their opportunity to serve 
God, because they would not educate their youth in 
their own schools. 

Baptists of North Carolina believe in education. 
They have committed themselves, year after year, 
to the educational vision. 


A Rededication to the Educational Ideal. 


Now the Baptists of this generation are asked to 
rededicate themselves to the historic policy of our 
Convention and to celebrate the Centennial of our 
organized work by raising a fund of $1,500,000 for 
our six colleges and one high school. 

Let us be true to our part in this century-long 
duty. Some one has said, “He is a bad man who does 
not pay to the future as much as he has received 
from the past.” 


In Flanders fields the poppies blow 
Between the crosses, row on row, 
That mark our place; and in the sky 
The larks, still bravely singing, fly 
Scarce heard amid the guns below. 


We are the Dead. Short days ago 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, 
Loved and were loved, and now we lie 
In Flanders fields. 


Take up our quarrel with the foe; 

To you from failing hands we throw 
The torch; be yours to hold it high. 
If ye break faith with us who die 

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow 

In Flanders fields. 


CHAPTER II 
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP 


Our educational institutions are ‘“‘God’s plant beds” 
for leaders in our churches—preachers, missionaries, 
lay workers. 

The denominational college is the only adequate 
source of supply for the trained leadership of any 
denomination. 

The denominational college is to its denomination 
what West Point is to the Army and Annapolis is to 
the Navy. 


The First College in America. 


The first College in America, Harvard, was estab- 
lished to educate church leadership. On its gates 
were inscribed these words: ‘‘We longed to advance 
learning and perpetuate it to posterity, dreading to 
leave an illiterate ministry to the churches when our 
present ministers shall be in the dust.” 

The denomination which has not the vision or self- 
sacrifice to build its own colleges, soon perishes from 
the face of the earth, its testimony for Christ ended. 


Who Trained Our Preachers? 


For illustration, look at the list of the present Bap- 
tist preachers in North Carolina. Those who had 


the privilege of college education were educated at 
the following colleges: 


Wake HoOrest)22 2.3222 Sate 202 
Visas lake ete cee ot eas 66 
Campbell meester. ee eee 60 
WAT abe ated Meier se moe enous 20 
Other Baptist colleges outside 

of our State—about............ 50 
From non-Baptist colleges in 

North Carolina—about ...... 6 


Without our own Baptist colleges we would be 
without a trained ministry. 


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We Must Train Our Own Preachers. 


Look at it in another way: 

Our State University is an institution of which 
every North Carolinian should be proud. It has been 
producing men for the past 140 years unsurpassed 
for character and ability anywhere in the world. It 
was Prof. Hooper, of the University, who made the 
motion at State Convention which founded Wake 
Forest. Some of our strongest Baptists owe their 
education to the University. Let us build it up in 
order that it may continue to bless the common- 
wealth as it has in the past. 

But its job is not to educate ministers: If the 
churches of the State had depended upon the Uni- 
versity for an educated ministry organized religion 
would have gone out of business long ago. 

In 140 years the University has given us 28 Bap- 
tist preachers, while Wake Forest, Campbell, Mars 
Hill and Wingate have given us 3,200 Baptist 
preachers. 

The University has given the Methodists 39 
preachers, while Trinity (now Duke) has educated 
1,400 Methodist preachers. 

The University has given the Presbyterians 75 
preachers, while Davidson has educated 698 Presby- 
terian preachers. 

It’s the same in every State. In the past 30 years 
the University of Virginia has educated 3 Methodist 
preachers, while Randolph-Macon was educating 330 
Methodist preachers. 

No, we must train our own leaders; that is part 
of our duty to God’s Kingdom. 

These facts and illustrations regarding the train- 
ing of ministers are tangible and convincing evidence 
that we must educate our own preachers. 

The Christian education of business men, lawyers, 
physicians, farmers, mothers and fathers, is just as 
important, but less tangible. 

While our colleges have been training Baptist 
ministers, they have also been giving the State and 


nation thousands of men and women who have been 
trained for Christian citizenship in varied walks of 
life. 


Train Other Christian Leaders, Also. 


Our girls colleges, Meredith and Chowan, together 
with our co-educational institutions, are sending 
back to our churches young women who put their 
training and talent in the service of the Master 
through their work in the W. M. U., Sunday school, 
choir, and all activities of the churches. 

Through our educational institutions, we have 
trained many of our best young men and women. 
They in turn, have given consecrated leadership to 
the churches, helping to build them up to the greater 
glory of God. 

We all know the great contribution Scotland has 
made to the Christian world. Scotland has put her 
faith in two things—churches and schools. She has 
insisted upon the Christian education of her youth 
and this little country has sent out a band of Chris- 
tian leaders who have influenced the whole world. 
We have felt the influence here of Scotland’s edu- 
cated ministry; and so has every nation on earth, 
civilized or uncivilized. 


Quotations. 


“The Christian college is the manufactory which 
takes the finest raw material the church can furnish, 
multiplies its value a hundred fold and returns it to 
the church in a life-giving stream of intelligent faith, 
trained power, and consecrated leadership.”—Henry 
L. Smith. 

“The churches of Christ have given one per cent of 
their sons and daughters to their colleges, and the 
colleges have given back 90% of the church’s minis- 
ters and missionaries.”—President Bates. 

“Titus ravaged Jerusalem and left behind a million 
corpses and salt-sown ruins. He thought he had 
made an end of the hated nation, but before he sailed 


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from Joppa a rabbi obtained permission to gather a 
few boys out of the desolation and teach them the 
law. It was a concession fatal to Roman supremacy. 
That school was the cause of the recovery of the 
amazing vitality and persistence of the Jewish 
people. It built law, national spirit, consciousness of 
being a peculiar people into mind. That abides.”— 
F. D. Powers. 


CHAPTER Iil 
CHRISTIAN EDUCATION 


“The soul of education is the education of the 
soul.” 

There is a vast difference between education and 
Christian education. Mr. Roosevelt once said: ‘To 
educate a man in mind and not in morals is to edu- 
cate a menace to society.” 

The boy or a girl who studies under a professor, 
who is interested only in imparting knowledge, is a 
different product from the boy or girl who studies 
under a professor who is deeply concerned over the 
character and soul of his pupils. 


Character in Education. 


Dr. John J. Tigert, U. S. Commissioner of Educa- 
tion, has said: “We must do something to develop 
character in our educational system.” The Baptists 
of North Carolina are doing that something by main- 
taining six colleges and a high school. In these 
schools are 150 teachers who are men and women of 
the highest scholastic equipment combined with a 
deep love for Christ and His Kingdom. Our Baptist 
boys and girls are enabled to learn science and his- 
tory and all the rest from men and women who also 
keep before them at all times Christ’s claim upon 
their enlarged talents. In our schools they are won 
toward Christ instead of weaned from Him. 


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Christian Men in Prominent Positions. 


Out from our schools have come some of the best 
trained men and women of the State—governors, a 
U. S. Senator, members of Congress, judges, State 
executives, mayors, and other public officials. Thou- 
sands of teachers have been given the State by our 
colleges, many college professors, county superinten- 
dents of schools, and at least 25 college presidents. 
Many of our graduates have achieved distinction in 
medicine, law, business. 


Christian Citizens. 


And all of the men and women of our schools, 
regardless of the line of work which they have taken 
up, are marked by splendid Christian character. 
They have been Christian citizens of their communi- 
ties, doing their full part in making and keeping 
North Carolina Christian. 

The forces of agnosticism, of evil, and of anarchy 
would rejoice if the Baptists, the Methodists and the 
Presbyterians of North Carolina would grow weary 
in their good works and close up their Christian col- 
leges. That would be a great day for the forces of evil. 

A young lady of North Carolina recently became 
ready for college. After considerable discussion in 
the family, her father sent her to a finishing school 
outside our State, at a cost of over twice what it 
might have been in Carolina. Her pastor said upon 
her return: “This lovely girl has been robbed of her 
greatest possession—her love of Christ and of her 
church. She is no longer one of us.” 

Explain it as you will, there is something about 
education which, when not connected with religious 
training, turns the heart cool toward the love of God 
and of His church. 


Quotations. 


Roger Babson, the great business analyst, says: 
“The need of the hour is not more factories or 
materials, not more railroads or steamships, not 


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more armies or more navies, but rather more educa- 
tion based on the plain teaching of Jesus.” 


“The question to be asked at the end of an edu- 
cational step is not ‘What has the child learned?’ 
but ‘What has the child become?’ ”—J. P. Monroe. 


“Character is caught, not taught.”—H. C. King. 


President Coolidge, at South Dakota State College, 
September 9, 1927: ‘There is something more in 
learning and something more in life than a mere 
knowledge of science, a mere acquisition of wealth, 
a mere striving for place and honor. Our colleges 
will fail in their duty to their students unless they 
are able to inspire them with a broader understand- 
ing of the spiritual meaning of science, of literature 
and of the arts.” 


“We must maintain a stronger, firmer grasp on 
the principle declared in the Psalms of David and re- 
echoed in the proverbs of his son, Solomon, that “The 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge’.” 
“Just here is becomes apparent that education by 
the State cannot be complete education. By the very 
genius of our government, the State cannot teach 
religion. What religion would the State teach? What 
would it say about the person and gospel of Christ? 
What would the State say about the church, and the 
Bible, and church history? To ask these questions 
is at once to indicate that the State has no religious 
functions at all. Through the long centuries our 
Baptist people have been the consistent and historic 
advocates of absolute liberty of conscience in the 
realm of religion and of its inevitable corollary, 
namely, the separation of church and state. Our 
Baptist fathers in Holland thus stated the principle 
in 1611: ‘The magistrate is not to meddle with 
religious matters of conscience, nor compel men to 
this or that form of religion, because Christ is King 


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and Law-giver of the conscience.’ Baptists are found 
under every flag, and they will flourish under any 
political regime that does not seek to coerce con- 
science. Any attempt by the church to force religious 
beliefs upon the state, or any attempt by the state to 
play the part of religious mentor to the church, is a 
procedure insufferable to a true Baptist. Every 
state church on the earth is spiritual tyranny and 
monstrosity. By all means, let Baptists hold to their 
age-old contention of the separation of church and 
state. Let them go on joyfully rendering unto Caesar 
the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the 
things which are God’s.”—Dr. G. W. Truett. 


“Another contribution which our schools are mak- 
ing is worthy of our keen interest. Wake Forest, 
Mars Hill, Wingate and Campbell have summer 
schools. Last summer at Wake Forest some 400 
public school teachers had their first opportunity to 
study the Bible under competent teachers. Since 
most of our boys and girls must be trained in the 
public schools, it must be of deep concern to us that 
the conduct and attitude of these teachers shall be 
not only morally good but positively Christian. And 
such an attitude our Baptist summer schools are 
meant to impart.”—M. A. Huggins. 


“Scholarship has never, as far as I can recall, been 
associated with any religion, except the religion of 
Jesus Christ.”—Woodrow Wilson. 


CHAPTER IV 


THE MILLION AND HALF DOLLAR 
CENTENNIAL FUND 


The Centennial Campaign is for the purpose of 
putting our six colleges and schools on a cash basis. 
The shrinkage in collections after the 75 Million 
Campaign placed some of these schools in an em- 
barrassing financial position. 


Meredith Bonds. 


From 1923 to 1926 the State Convention borrowed 
one million dollars for the purpose of establishing 
Meredith College at its new site. Bonds were issued 
for this amount, and it was expected to refund these 
bonds out of the annual contributions from the 
churches to the Board of Education. At that time 
the churches contributed $200,000 a year for educa- 
tion. It was planned to use $100,000 of this amount 
for refunding and paying the interest on the Mere- 
dith bonds. 

As you all know, the contributions from the 
churches have fallen off a great deal since 1923 and 
that plan, therefore, could not be carried out. The 
Department of Education now receives only $95,000 
a year from the churches instead of the $200,000 
expected. 


Needs of Other Schools. 


Several of the other colleges find themselves in a 
similar situation because of this falling off of contri- 
butions. The State Convention has had to take over 
all these obligations of our schools and the Cen- 
tennial Campaign is for the purpose of wiping them 
all out and putting the schools on a cash basis. 

Boiling Springs needs $40,000; Campbell, $40,000; 
Chowan, $25,000; Mars Hill, $85,000; Meredith, $1,- 
000,000; Wingate, $60,000, and Wake Forest needs 


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$250,000 for a new building, making a total of 
$1,500,000. 


Entire $1,500,000 is for Permanent Equipment. 


All of this money which has been borrowed for 
our schools has been invested in buildings and per- 
manent equipment, none of it has gone for operating 
deficit. We have on every campus our money’s worth 
and far more, for every dollar that has been spent. 
Now we must pay for what we have. 


These Are Convention Obligations. 


These debts are Convention obligations—not in- 
dividual school debts. Everything we owe is the 
Convention’s and everything we receive, money for 
missions, benevolence and education, is pledged for 
the payment of these debts. North Carolina Baptists 
have never defaulted in a cent and never will. The 
banks have trusted us—our credit, our honor is at 
stake. We must keep our credit at gilt edge. 


Interest Payments Are a Heavy Load. 


It is not good business for us to let these debts 
continue. We have to pay $70,000 a year now in 
interest on these debts. We get only $95,000 a year 
from the churches for educational purposes and $70,- 
000 of it has to go to the bond holders for interest. 
We must clear off this indebtedness and use this 
$70,000 a year for helping with the running expenses 
of our schools. By realizing this $70,000 a year we 
can enable our schools to meet in some measure the 
sharp competition of other schools around us in the 
amounts paid teachers. 

This $70,000 a year which we plan to save, now 
being paid in interest, is equal to the income from 
$1,400,000 endowment—three times the present en- 
dowment of Meredith. 


Total Assets. 


The total net assets of our colleges now are $6,- 
318,000, a fact which makes all of us proud. 

The Centennial Campaign will not do all that 
should be done for Wake Forest. Our first respon- 
sibility is to raise the Centennial Fund of one million, 
five hundred thousand dollars and get our schools on 
a cash basis, where we hope they will always be kept 
hereafter, and where they would have been kept 
heretofore had it not been for the disappointment in 
the receipts following the 75 Million Campaign. Wake 
Forest will need much more money than the $250,000 
which she will get from the Centennial Fund, and 
it is hoped that in 1934 she can celebrate her cen- 
tennial by raising an adequate amount for her needs. 


Worthy Method of Celebrating Centennial. 


The Baptists of other generations before us have 
measured up to the demands for their educational 
institutions. The only worthy way we can celebrate 
the close of one hundred years of Baptist achieve- 
ments in North Carolina is by paying our debts on 
our educational institutions, making secure the in- 
vestment made by the fathers. 


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CHAPTER V 


HOW WE HOPE TO RAISE THE MILLION 
AND HALF DOLLAR FUND 


The million and a half dollar Centennial Fund 
ought to be subscribed by individual Baptist men 
and women over and above their contributions to the 
regular co-operative program—given in grateful re- 
membrance of the blessings of the past ninety-seven 
years and for the purpose of strengthening these in- 
stitutions which have meant so much to our present 
power as a denomination. 


The Centennial Committee in the Church. 


Every church which is willing to co-operate in this 
great Centennial Movement is asked to appoint a 
Centennial Campaign Chairman and Key Woman 
and a committee who will be willing to solicit the 
individual Baptists in their church who might be 
willing to subscribe to this fund. This church has 
appointed the following to represent them in this 
movement—(mention here the names of the com- 
mittee). 


This committee is planning to call upon the indi- 
viduals in the church. Subscriptions will be payable 
over a period of ten quarterly payments, covering a 
period of two and one-half years. This will bring the 
final payment in 1930 so that we can celebrate our 
centennial in 1930 with the money all paid in. 


Large Giving Required. 


This fund is going to require subscriptions of five 
and ten times as much as you think you can make 
when you first think of it. After consideration you 
will begin to see the significance of this thing in its 
true light, and we hope you will want to make a sub- 


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scription which will be worthy of the great cause. 
We are hoping there will be at least two Baptists in 
North Carolina who will give $50,000 each, four who 
will give $25,000 each, and several others who will 
give $10,000 and $5,000, $2,500, and $1,000. Of 
course we want subscriptions for any amount, even 
for a dollar, if that represents the most that one can 
give to this enterprise, but it is worthy the consider- 
ation also of those able to give in large amounts. 


God has blessed the gifts of the men and women of 
fifty and ninety years ago. Their money given to 
these institutions has wrought tremendous things in 
the Kingdom of God. Because of the leadership that 
these gifts have trained we have grown steadily from 
a despised sect of 20,000 in 1830 to the largest Chris- 
tian denomination in North Carolina today. Men and 
women who had the vision and unselfishness to give 
the money during the past century must now look 
down upon what their money has accomplished with 
great pride and joy. Money given now to build these 
institutions for the next hundred years for Service 
will bring as great joy to those who give it. 


Our folks are easily able to give the $1,500.000 
Centennial Fund. It is said that 1200 Baptists in 
North Carolina are worth over $150,000,000. No one 
knows how great are the combined resources of all 
our people! 


During the year from July 1, 1926, to July 1, 1927, 
the people of North Carolina paid a gas tax of $8,- 
120,604.29. This means we paid a total of $44,663,- 
328 for gasoline last year. Baptists surely paid not 
less than $11,000,000 for gas in one year’s time. And 
we ask from them only $1,500,000 for our seven edu- 
cational institutions—payable over 214 years. 


“Our business men often say that we will build up 
our educational institutions when our people become 
more wealthy. But that theory begins at the wrong 
end of the matter. We can not wait to sow until we 
have reaped a rich harvest. We must become more 
wealthy by building up our educational plants. It 
was not by waiting to be rich that Massachusetts 
built up her colleges and universities. She made 
them great and they made her rich. The South 
must follow the same way to great wealth.”—Bishop 
Warren A. Candler. 


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